Manager - Infrastructure & Operations (62138)

Walsworth; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Walsworth in Kansas is seeking an Infrastructure & Operations Manager to lead IT systems, DevOps engineers, and multi‑cloud operations, ensuring reliable, secure production environments across servers and core services. This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance security, performance, and cost.

You will own capacity planning, patching, backup/recovery, incident management, SOC 2 compliance, and vendor/cost management, while collaborating with production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field with five (5) years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience.
• Associate degree in a related field and eight (8) years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience.
• Prior experience leading or supervising technical staff, projects, vendors, or operational priorities.
• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud platforms, backup/recovery, monitoring, incident response, change management, and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall IT systems and DevOps engineers; manage priorities, staffing, performance, on call/escalation, and development.
• Own infrastructure availability, capacity, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, lifecycle, cloud operations, and technical debt reduction.
• Coordinate major incidents, root-cause analysis, changes, maintenance windows, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Ensure infrastructure controls satisfy security and SOC 2 requirements including access, logging, vulnerability, change, backup, and evidence expectations.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, inventory, standards, dependencies, and recovery documentation.
• Manage infrastructure/cloud vendors, licensing, costs, and service performance.
• Partners with production/business teams to schedule changes and minimize operational disruption.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Skills

Infrastructure operations

People leadership

Cloud operations

Server/virtualization

Backup/DR and resilience

Incident/change/problem management

Vendor/cost management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/IS

Associate degree with 8+ years experience

Job description

Job Summary:

As the Infrastructure & Operations Manager, you will be accountable for reliable, secure, supportable infrastructure and operational execution across servers, multi-cloud platforms, backup/recovery, core services, DevOps/platform operations, and multi-site production technology dependencies.

Essential Functions:

• Lead overall IT systems and DevOps engineers; manage priorities, staffing, performance, on call/escalation, and development.
• Own infrastructure availability, capacity, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, lifecycle, cloud operations, and technical debt reduction.
• Coordinate major incidents, root-cause analysis, changes, maintenance windows, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Ensure infrastructure controls satisfy security and SOC 2 requirements including access, logging, vulnerability, change, backup, and evidence expectations.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, inventory, standards, dependencies, and recovery documentation.
• Manage infrastructure/cloud vendors, licensing, costs, and service performance.
• Partners with production/business teams to schedule changes and minimize operational disruption.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Expert knowledge with infrastructure operations
• Advanced knowledge with people leadership/mentorship, cloud/server/virtualization breadth, backup/DR and resilience, incident/change/problem management, and vendor/cost management
• Demonstrate ownership, sound judgment, integrity, and accountability
• Communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Balance security, reliability, cost, user experience, and production requirements
• Follow change, documentation, escalation, and risk‑management standards
• Collaborate with IT and business teams and contribute to continuous improvement

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience; OR
• Associate degree in a related field and eight (8) years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience.
• Prior experience leading or supervising technical staff, projects, vendors, or operational priorities.
• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud platforms, backup/recovery, monitoring, incident response, change management, and security standards.